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  Whitley Stokes - LoveToKnow 1911
WHITLEY STOKES (1830-1909), British lawyer and Celtic scholar, was a son of William Stokes (1804-1878), and a grandson of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was regius professor of physic in the university of Dublin.
In his day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in Europe.
He was one of the editors of the Irische Texte published at Leipzig (1880-1900); and he edited and translated Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore (1890).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Whitley_Stokes   (275 words)

  
  List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted a doctor who taught in the university, a usage that continues to be found in, for example, US universities.
The first five Regius Professorships, sometimes referred to as the Henrician Regius Professors, were granted arms and crests in 1590.
Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction, 1967
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Professorships_at_the_University_of_Cambridge   (394 words)

  
 Regius
Regius Professor Regius Professorships are "Royal" Professorships at the universities of the Crown.
Regius Professor of Hebrew The Regius Professorship of Hebrew is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the Universit...
Regius Professor of Physic The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the 1540.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/regius.html   (187 words)

  
 The Gairdner Foundation
Professor Ronald Pearlman is the Director of the Core Molecular Biology Facility at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
Professor Patrick Sissons is the newly appointed Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University.
Professor Lap-Chee Tsui is Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong and the recipient of the 1990 Gairdner International Award.
www.gairdner.org /03_05_10_20_1.html   (132 words)

  
 Wootton report Section 5
The "hard"drugs are also physically dangerous: the direct result of over-dosage may be death, and possible indirect results are ill-health and even death, from pneumonia, malnutrition and infection due to dirty syringes.
Physical dependence does not appear to occur, but habituation is intense, and people find great difficulty in giving up smoking.
As late as the beginning of this century the Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge along with the most distinguished pharmacologist of the time described in a standard medical textbook the effects of excessive coffee consumption: "the sufferer is tremulous and loses his self-command, he is subject to fits of agitation and depression.
www.drugtext.org /library/reports/wootton/sec5.html   (1488 words)

  
 High-profile line-up for health public talks - Cardiff University
Professor Henry was one of the first experts to identify that Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko had been poisoned.
Professor Peter Elwood, co-ordinating the series, said: "We are delighted to have attracted such a powerful line-up of speakers to Cardiff.
Pictured: Professor Sir Keith Peters, Chairman of the Council of Cardiff University, and former Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge
www.cardiff.ac.uk /newsevents/22303.html   (446 words)

  
 Sir James, Bart Paget - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1847 he was appointed an assistant-surgeon to the hospital, and Arris and Gale professor at the College of Surgeons.
Thomas Wormald, the senior demonstrator, who was no pathologist, sent a piece of the same muscle to Owen, who authoritatively pronounced the specks to be parasites and gave them their scientific name.
Lt is probable that Owen did not realize that Paget had already made the discovery, and it was naturally associated with the name of the professor.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_James,_Bart_Paget   (1262 words)

  
 John Kelly, Physician of Oxford
He was appointed Regius Professor of Medicine in 1759, and remained in the post until his death in August 1772.
He is described in the register as "Regius Professor of Physick, Univ. of Oxford and Master of Ewelme Hospital".
The "Will of John Kelly, Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Oxford, Doctor of Physic" (date of probate 26 November 1772) was deposited at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: ref PROB 11/982.
www.headington.org.uk /oxon/doctors/regius_professors/kelly_john.htm   (502 words)

  
 News & Events : Brighton & Sussex Medical School
The building was opened by Sir Keith Peters, Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge, followed by a tour of the new facilities.
Professor Di Watt, Dr Darrell Evans and Dr John Kay with their respective research teams, will be the first to take advantage of the excellent new facilities.
Professor Watt’s work is geared towards developing cell-based therapies for muscle diseases and determining the factors which permit cells to become muscle.
www.bsms.ac.uk /images/news/newspages/06_04researchbuilding.htm   (337 words)

  
 List
The Professor was, during the university's pleasure, to devote himself principally to the study of Protozoa; he was not obliged to lecture in more than one term of the year, but was to present annually, to a Board of Managers, a report on the work achieved in his laboratory.
On Professor Hodgkin's retirement the professorship lapsed, and was replaced on the Plummer foundation by the professorship of Cell Biology.
The professorship lapsed on the retirement of Professor Gutteridge and was re-established for one tenure by grace of 16 December 1944.
www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~jld1/lists/P.html   (5053 words)

  
 Wootton Report Section 5 - A Comparison of Cannabis and Other Drugs
The "hard"drugs are also physically dangerous: the direct result of over-dosage may be death, and possible indirect results are ill-health and even death, from pneumonia, malnutrition and infection due to dirty syringes.
Physical dependence does not appear to occur, but habituation is intense, and people find great difficulty in giving up smoking.
As late as the beginning of this century the Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge along with the most distinguished pharmacologist of the time described in a standard medical textbook the effects of excessive coffee consumption: "the sufferer is tremulous and loses his self-command, he is subject to fits of agitation and depression.
www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/library/studies/wootton/sec5.htm   (1510 words)

  
 PublicTechnology.net
Professor Geoffrey Boulton is Vice Principal and Regius Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Boulton is currently Deputy Convenor of the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, and Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Science Education in Scotland and of the Scottish Knowledge Transfer Taskforce.
Professor Michael Sterling is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and chair of the Russell Group of research-intensive Universities.
www.publictechnology.net /print.php?sid=766   (1103 words)

  
 Crown appoints new Regius Professor of Physic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Regius Professorship is a Crown appointment and was founded in 1540 by Henry VIII.
Professor Sissons joined the University in 1988, where he established an academic division of Infectious Disease within the Department of Medicine and developed the Infectious Disease Service.
Sir Keith Peters was appointed to the Regius Professorship in 1987.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2004080301   (471 words)

  
 January 2006 - World Wide Update
Professor Lawson said: “The cause of this ongoing pain and why it arises spontaneously was not understood before.
In an up-to-date commentary, Professor Macleod Clark, who is head of the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, says that a total review of the nursing education system is called for and tough policy measures need to be introduced.
Professor Clark added that the profession has made considerable efforts to bring about change, but that the pressures on today’s nurses are a key factor in the continuing “reality gap” identified by Eve Bendall.
www.middleeasthealthmag.com /mar2006/worldupdate.htm   (2153 words)

  
 Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge
The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor Patrick Sissons MD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci be appointed Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge in succession to Professor Sir Keith Peters MB BCh FRCP PMedSci FRS on his retirement on 30 September 2005.
Professor (John Gerald) Patrick Sissons (aged 59) is currently Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Associate Medical Director and Governor of Addenbrooke's Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Sissons has served on numerous national grants committees and advisory bodies and his personal research has been supported by a UK Medical Research Council programme grant for 20 years.
www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page6201.asp   (308 words)

  
 Administration: LEICESTER HONOUR FOR CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR
Professor Dame Gillian Beer, DBE, FBA, is to receive the degree of Doctor of Letters at the July Degree Congregation, to be held in the De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
Professor Beer is the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Professor Beer is one of ten people prominent in the worlds of academia, medicine, science and industry to receive an honorary degree from Leicester University in July.
www.le.ac.uk /press/press/beer.html   (371 words)

  
 Addenbrooke's Hospital: New Regius Professor of Physic announced   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Professor Sissons is currently Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Associate Medical Director and Governor of Addenbrooke's Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Regius Professorship is a Crown appointment, and was founded in 1540 by King Henry VIII.
The Professor provides strategic leadership both within the School, and in its relationship with the NHS and other stakeholders, including the MRC, Wellcome Trust and CRUK (Cancer Research UK).
www.addenbrookes.org.uk /news/news2004/aug/prof_sissons_030804.html   (226 words)

  
 Thomas Sydenham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His first book, Methodus curandi febres, was published in 1666; a second edition, with an additional chapter on the plague, in 1668; and a third edition, further enlarged and bearing the better-known title of Observationes medicae, in 1676.
His next publication was in 1680 in the form of two Epistolae responsoriae, the one, "On Epidemics," addressed to Robert Brady, regius professor of physic at Cambridge, and the other "On the Lues venerea," to Henry Paman, public orator at Cambridge and Gresham professor in London.
Hermann Boerhaave, the Leyden professor, was wont to speak of him in his class (which had always some pupils from England and Scotland) as "Angliae lumen, artis Phoebum, veram Hippocratici yin speciem".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Sydenham   (1550 words)

  
 History - Overview - Department of Clinical Medicine - School of Medicine - Faculty of Health Sciences - Trinity ...
The origin of the DCM was the appointment in 1960 of the first whole time professor of Clinical Medicine in Ireland, at the instigation and motivation of Jerry Jessop, the Dean of the Medical School and one of the architects not only of the DCM but of the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals (FDVH).
Professors of Clinical Medicine from the United Kingdom, including representatives of the Wellcome Trust attended the Scientific Symposium that accompanied the event.
O`Morain was formally appointed as Professor of Clinical Medicine and Head of the AMNCH section of the DCM in 2002.
www.medicine.tcd.ie /clinical_medicine/overview/history2.php   (4295 words)

  
 What not to wear with your mortarboard | Careers | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Professor Christopher Jennison, currently professor of statistics in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Bath, would be able to tell you that the statistical likelihood of him becoming dean of the faculty of science is 100%.
Sir Keith is currently regius professor of physic at Cambridge.
And Imperial College London 's new principal to the faculty of medicine is Professor Stephen Smith from Glasgow.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/careers/story/0,,1233377,00.html   (189 words)

  
 SYDENHAM - LoveToKnow Article on SYDENHAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
His first book, Methodus curandi febres, was published in 1666; a second edition, with an additional chapter on the plague, in 1668; and a third edition, much enlarged and bearing the better-known title of Observationes medicae, in 1676.
His next publication was in 1680 in the form of two Epistolae respon-soriae, the one, " On Epidemics, " addressed to Robert Brady, regius professor of physic at Cambridge, and the other " On the Lues venerea, " to Henry Paman, public orator at Cambridge and Gresham professor in London.
Boerhaave, the Leyden professor, was wont to speak of him in his class (which had always some pupils from England and Scotland) as Angliae lumen, artis Phoebum, veram Hippocratici yin speciem.
30.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SY/SYDENHAM.htm   (1490 words)

  
 Regius - Jan Jacobus Frederik Maria Bos: The Correspondence between   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Colin Darnley McCaig appointed to the Regius Chair of Physiology in Aberdeen University.
The Regius Professorship is a Crown appointment and was founded in 1540 by Henry Sir Keith Peters was appointed to the Regius Professorship in 1987.
www.findoutwebsite.com /?q=regius   (383 words)

  
 Charles Badham. Who is Charles Badham? What is Charles Badham? Where is Charles Badham? Definition of Charles Badham. ...
Charles Badham ( July 19, 1813 - February 26, 1884), was an English scholar, born at Ludlow, Shropshire.
His father was regius professor of physic at Glasgow ; his mother was a cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet.
As a child, Badham was sent to Switzerland to study under Johann Pestalozzi.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Charles_Badham   (366 words)

  
 Free Physic Reading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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He held this professor-ship for six years and each year gave six lectures in surgical pathology.
Thomas Wormal 1, the senior demonstrator, who was no pathologist, sent a piece of the same muscle to Owen, who authoritatively pronounced the specks to be parasites and gave them their scientific name.
It is probable that Owen did not realize that Paget had already made the discovery, and it was naturally associated with the name of the professor.
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 Whitley Stokes. Who is Whitley Stokes? What is Whitley Stokes? Where is Whitley Stokes? Definition of Whitley Stokes. ...
He was a son of William Stokes (1804-1878), and a grandson of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was regius professor of physic in the University of Dublin.
In his day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in Europe.
He was one of the editors of the Irische Texte published at Leipzig (1880-1900); and he edited and translated Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore (1890).
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Whitley_Stokes   (297 words)

  
 Joshua Lasher, Physician of Oxford
Lasher was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1718 to 1729.
A Mrs Martha Lasher was buried in that church on 29 April 1743, and it seems likely that this was his widow.
The "Will of Joshua Lasher, Doctor and Regius Professor of Physic of Oxford" (date of probate 17 May 1729) was deposited at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: ref PROB 11/629.
www.headington.org.uk /oxon/doctors/regius_professors/lasher_joshua.htm   (309 words)

  
 Table of Principal Dates. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: ...
The Lady Margaret endows professors of Divinity at Oxford and Cambridge.
Regius Professorships of Divinity, Greek, Hebrew, Law and Physic established at Cambridge and Oxford.
John Cheke regius professor of Greek at Cambridge.
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 Greatest of Centuries 5
It must have been immensely more difficult to preserve the writings of the professors of the medieval universities for they had to be copied out laboriously by hand, yet we have an enormous number of large volumes of their works, on nearly every intellectual topic, that have been carefully preserved.
Professor Allbutt, the Regius professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, a position, the occupant of which is always a leader in English medical thought, the present professor being one of the world's best authorities in the history of medicine, recently pointed out some of these marvels of old-time medicine and surgery.
spoken of by this middle-of-the-Thirteenth Century Italian professor of medicine, who, if we would believe so many of the historians of medicine, was not supposed to occupy himself at all with ante and post-mortem studies of patients, but with the old-time medical authorities.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/walsh-e.htm   (5308 words)

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